towhead
/toh-hed/US // ˈtoʊˌhɛd //UK // (ˈtəʊˌhɛd) //
拖头,牵引头,拖曳头,牵引力
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a head of very light blond, almost white hair.
- : a person with such hair.
- : a sand bar in a river, especially a sand bar with a stand of cottonwood trees.
Examples
Turn the page, and there, in fresh ginghams, would be mom, baking pies with one hand while patting her towhead with the other.
As soon as I got started I took out after the raft, hot and heavy, right down the towhead.
We laid up for the day on a towhead tolerable close to the left-hand bank.
On this up trip I saw a little towhead (infant island) half a mile long, which had been formed during the past nineteen years.
Only that morning I had seen Towhead, crouched behind a clump of syringas, playing sharp-shooter.
To the right of that was a towhead, a newly formed island of mud and sand partly awash.
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